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Rihanna May Have Announced a New 2019 Album but She’s Still Trolling Because Y’all Keep Asking Her
Rihanna is the queen of rationing out bread crumbs for the most-anticipated bread since sliced bread. While RiRi is out here dominating the makeup and lingerie industry like the bad boss bitch she is, she can’t even drop a new lipstick and properly destroy our wallets without someone asking about her new album. Yes, it’s…
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Instagram Changed Their Scrolling to Side-to-Side, Then Decided to Cha-Cha Back to Normal After Everyone Lost Their Shit
Two hops, two hops! Instagram is the master of changing shit no one asked them to change. Most notably, getting rid of chronological order in favor of a shitty algorithm that has fucked up engagement numbers and other analytics for countless bloggers, influencers, marketers and beyond. Or offering an option to share on its father…
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Kevin Hart’s Comedy Is a Stupid Hill to Die On
“I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my shit.” – Erykah Badu text “If you can’t take the heat, eat bologna.” – My mama text A brief list of names I’ve been called: Coon The real racist “Secret KKK collaborator” Anti-white “The Sellout writer for The Root” I believe those things as much as I…
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What Are Reasonable Expectations to Have of Rappers?
I have a theory that because of the way we curate our social media circles nowadays, I believe most of us think our circles are representative of reality. This is my story, this is my song. I also think it’s pure bullshit. We all know most of the people who inhabit America are absolutely dumb,…
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HBO Social Media Series Saluting Alvin Ailey’s 60th Anniversary Kicks Off With Jussie Smollett
Celebrating its historic 60th anniversary, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is dancing into the holidays in New York City, with its five-week holiday season, which kicked off Nov. 28 and will conclude on Dec. 30. For those outside of New York or for those who’d rather honor the Civil Rights-era arts icon from the…
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Tumblr Announced They’re Banning Adult Content, So … Do We Still Need Tumblr?
In 2007, David Karp founded Tumblr and essentially introduced the term “microblog” to mainstream culture. Its intended purpose was for users to be able to share multiple forms of media, as well as each other’s short-form blogs. Then, one day, we all looked up and Tumblr had become the social media equivalent of PornHub. You…
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Brett Favre, Soulja Boy Tricked Into Recording Videos For White Supremacist Group
A group of celebrities… and Soulja Boy were duped into recording video messages with anti-semitic dog whistles for a hate group, under the pretense that the messages were for a veterans group. According to Buzzfeed, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre; slightly off-center comedian Andy Dick and legendary Supermanner of hoes Soulja Boy were…
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Korryn Gaines, Color of Change and How We Know Facebook Doesn’t Care About Black People
She said the “devil” was at her door. When the Baltimore County Police Department officers arrived at the home of Korryn Gaines on Aug. 1, 2017, she knew she might be killed. Holding her phone in one hand and a shotgun in the other, Gaines figured that her only defense against being killed in front…
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Oh, Snap! Instagram Is Cracking Down on Fake Activity. Will the Insta-famous Survive?
File this under “When Doing the Most Goes Wrong”: Some of your Insta-faves may be revealed to be a little less popular than you thought, as Instagram seeks to restore trust and integrity to its platform by banning paid-for likes and followers. This move follows similar measures taken on Twitter and Facebook (the latter of…
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Harpo, Who Dis Doll? An $1,100 Idris Elba Doll Fail Debuts—and Hilarity Ensues
Stringer Bell did not die for this. In an obscene case of “WTF were they thinking?” a British doll manufacturer thought they would capitalize on the crowning of Idris Elba as People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” by creating a doll in his honor. And whew, Lord … the layers on that mistake. First of…
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